It’s Christmas. Yeah, it’s only November and sure, Thanksgiving is still on the way, but Christmas can live in your heart all year long. Any day with joy can feel exactly like Christmas if you want it to—and no one feels this more than Nina West!

Trust and believe, no one finds Christmas more congenial than the Miss Congeniality of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 11, and now she’s got the Christmas EP to prove it. The West Christmas Ever (out now on all music platforms!) is sure to spice up your holiday plans with a bit of that Nina West magic, which is kind of a mix of cinnamon and a warm hug.

Nina West is the campiest, Christmas-iest queen of all (up there with Frostgela), so we asked her to share her absolute favorite holiday streaming treats. If you’re looking for some must watch movies to get you or your loved ones out of Grinch mode, then let this list be your guide. And just to give you a glimpse of what’s coming up this year, Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come style, we’ve included Nina’s take on her own entry into the Christmas canon: the music video for her seasonal single “Jingle Juice.”

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'Mickey's Christmas Carol' (1983)

Nina West: “I can’t get through the holiday season without watching Mickey’s Christmas Carol. I think it’s the best telling of that [story]. I think second would be Muppet Christmas Carol, but Mickey’s Christmas Carol is such a classic. I remember watching it as a kid, and I watch it every year. I have to watch it every year. But one of my other favorite choices is a Muppet Christmas special…”

'A Muppet Family Christmas' (1987)

Nina West: “…It’s A Muppet Family Christmas. It takes place at Fozzie’s mom’s house [laughs]. I love it so much when all of the characters come in from Sesame Street, from Fraggle Rock, when they sing “Pass It On”? forget about it! Gobo Fraggle singing ‘Pass it On’? Go away, it’s the best!”

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'The Mistle-Tones' (2012)

Nina West: “Number 3 would be The Mistle-Tones with Tia Mowry and Tori Spelling. I love it so much, and I just think people don’t give it enough credit. It is a Christmas classic [Ed. Note:We agree]. I am not kidding you, I was on tour in Europe in July with Brooke Lynn Hytes and—it’s on my iPad—I was like, ‘Have you ever seen this? It’s the best, I love it so much!’ and she was like, ‘No, I have no desire, no—’ and I was like ‘No, you’re watching this with me now!’ and I’m kind of hooked on it. [Laughs] And every time I watch it, I’m like, ‘Who wants to perform on Christmas Eve? At the mall!’ But still, I’m in love with it. I am a gigantic Tia Mowry fan, and I think she is so ridiculously good in this movie, and it’s so campy and it’s so fun, it’s just filled with joy. That’s why I really really like it. It’s so joy-filled.”

'It's a Wonderful Life' (1946)

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Nina West: “Well, my favorite Christmas movie of all-time is It’s A Wonderful Life. I think it’s one of the best movies ever made. I just don’t know if there’s anything better than It’s A Wonderful Life. I think it’s probably on everybody’s Christmas list.”

'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' (2000)

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Nina West: “I love Jim Carrey’s The Grinch. I know that that’s probably also super controversial. People are like, ‘Well that’s not it,’ but I really do love his take on it. Christine Baranski is so iconic in it. She’s so good! And Molly Shannon is so good in it. I really love that.”

"Jingle Juice" by Nina West

Nina West: “I really wanted to come up with a Christmas song that was gonna be like, I don’t know, ‘Piano Man’ meets ‘Cheeseburger in Paradise.’ [Laughs] And so what we wrote was a song that was all about drinking during the holidays, because, you know, many times for a lot of people like me, there was a year or two where I didn’t spend it with my family and I spent it with my chosen family. We’d go to the bar, we’d go to the gay bar and we’d drink. And we would have our Christmas there and celebrate and have cocktails, and just have our family Christmas that way. And it’s even now a tradition when I go home for Christmas that I always end up at my favorite local watering hole and meet all of my friends, after I’m done with my family, for a cocktail. So I really wanted to capture that kind of tradition in my own life of meeting my friends out at the bar to celebrate the season.

“[The ‘Jingle Juice’ video is] like ‘Hee-Haw,’ Dolly Parton, a little Lady Bunny reference because she’s one of my very favorite entertainers. You know, just kind of a mix of the Wild West themes. A big inspiration was the idea of going to a town where it was kind of isolated and stuck in a certain time, and here they’re stuck without really celebrating the seasons and I kind of bring the season to them.”